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Meals that Heal: Tomato & Butter Lettuce Salad with Dill Dressing

August 12, 2016 Brooklyn Wagner

I don't know about you, but for me the season's blessing of long hours of sunlight somehow seems to expand all the possibilities for creating bountiful meals — even after a long day at the office.

Throughout most of the year, getting dinner on the table is a race against the clock. As the working day grows longer, and we answer yet another after-hours email, our plans for braising or roasting our meals get downgraded to quickly stir-frying some vegetables. When we finally walk through the door, exhausted, at 8 p.m., we wonder if we have the energy to make a piece of toast with avocado.

But summer's bright evening hours are invigorating: When the workday is done, there are still plenty of hours left to do whatever you want before bedtime. For me, that often involves creating more ambitious meals than I would be inclined to on a dark, cold winter night.

Summertime's freewheeling bounty spurs my creativity in the kitchen with little effort. Instead of planning a menu I tend to improvise in the kitchen inspired by my local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and I rely on what the farmer has brought for me to create my meals,  aaaaahhhhh. I create less picture-perfect but more soul nourishing food. It tends to be more whimsical, colorful, and, at times, even tastier.

Sometimes, a messy, juicy heirloom salad with butter lettuce and cuke salad is every bit as satisfying as a labored-over three-course menu — and a lot more fun to make.

No cooking required on this nourishing and cooling summer salad using the ingredients from my local CSA box. The dressing requires no blend and turns out super creamy.
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